Buy Me

Buy me silk stockings and ruffled panties and a grey plush elephant with shiny eyes. Feed me hot chocolate and buttered toast with a linen napkin to wipe my crumbly mouth. Carry me to bed and tuck me in. My dad was neither a Daddy nor a Father. Swaddle me in comforters and roll me to sleep, like Alice, I long to sleep in tunnels. My life is oatmeal without authority figures. And I never got my fur coat.